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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, book by Samuel Johnson, published in 1775. The Journey was the result of a three-month trip to Scotland that Johnson took with his biographer, James Boswell, in 1773. It contains Johnson’s descriptions of the customs, religion, education, trade, and agriculture of a society that was new to him. The account of the same journey in Boswell’s diary, published after Johnson’s death as The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785), offers an intimate personal record of the “minute particulars” of Johnson’s behaviour and conversation during the trip.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.